Seamus Heaney: A Lifetime in Poetry Karen Whitney Rutherford B. Hayes High School 289 Euclid Avenue Delaware, Ohio 43015 ORCLISH/470 Glenmont Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43214 Action Plan--Poets and Poetry Grades 9-12 English Topic--Poetry and Poets Seamus Heaney: A Lifetime in Poetry April is National Poetry Month. Discover a poet, collect poetry, listen to poems read aloud, read your poems aloud, and share the joy of poetry often throughout the month. Although the assignments vary, using this pathfinder will provide links to meet each one: biographies of poets, collections of their work, criticism about a poet's work, or audio archives so you can enjoy poetry as it was meant to be heard. When searching at the library, look for these Dewey numbers in nonfiction or reference: 808--Collections of literary texts from more than two literatures; 809--Poetry--History and critical appraisals of literatures; 811--American poetry; 821--English poetry. In this study, we are primarily looking at British and American authors and poets. Other regions of the world are certainly included. Because Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney visited Ohio Wesleyan University Wednesday, April 21, 2004, students were able to attend an evening poetry reading. Therefore, the English classes studied the life and works of Heaney specifically. Web Sites For Seamus Heaney Nobel e-Museum Academy of American PoetsBPoetry Exhibits Heaney cover page (links) Ursula Frayne Catholic College (updated 2000) Salon, article by Richard Covington Readings in contemporary poetry Seamus Heaney's reading at the University of Bologna Poetry at MIT Poetry, lectures, biographical information Thompson Gale Free Resources Source: Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2nd ed. 18 vols. Gale, 1998. Poets and Poetry Web Sites Modern American Poetry Knopf Poetry(Subscribe to a poem a day) Online Magnetic Poetry Poetry at MIT The Academy of American Poets Poets.org Poetry : Awards, Contests, Poems, Poetic Terms - LibrarySpot.com American Poems list of Poets Yahooligans! - School Bell:Language Arts:Poetry: Poets The Poetry & Literature Center of the Library of Congress The Internet Public LibraryBLiterary Criticism Poets and Poetry Books The following books are a few of the recommended titles you may choose to use for your poetry projects. Please use the automated card catalog to find others, or ask a librarian. 811 BRO Brooks, Gwendolyn. Selected Poems. Harper & Row, Pub, 1963. 811 CUM Cummings, Edward Estlin. 95 poems. Harcourt, Brace & Wo, 1958. 811 FRO Frost, Robert. The Poems of Robert Frost. Random House, 1946. 811.09 GOU Gould, Jean. Modern American Women Poets. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1984. 973.04 MUR Murphy, Jim. Pick and Shovel Poet: the Journeys of Pascal DBAngelo. New York: Clarion Books, 2000. 808.81 FOS Foss, Michael. Poetry of the World Wars. Michael OBMara Books, 1990. 821 HEA Heaney, Seamus. Electric Light. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2001. 821 HEA Heaney, Seamus. Opened Ground. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux,1998. 821 HEA Heaney, Seamus. The Spirit Level. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1996. 811.08 HEA Heard, Paul L. ed. Anthology of American Poetry. Royal Publishing, 1964. 811 HUG Hughes, Langston. Selected Poems of Langston Hughes. New York: Random House, 1987. 821.08 LAR Larkin, Philip, ed. The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century Verse. New York: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1974. 811 LON Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Poetical Works of Longfellow. Houghton Mifflin Co, 1975. 811.08 MAT Matthiessen, F. O. cho. The Oxford Book of American Verse. Oxford University Press, 1950. 808.81 NYE Nye, Naomi Shihab. The Space Between our Footsteps: Poems and Paintings from the Middle East. 1st ed. New York: Simon& Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1998. 808.81 NYE Nye, Naomi Shihab. This Same Sky: A Collection of Poems from Around the World. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1992. REF 809 GRE OBNeill, Patrick M., ed. Great World Writers: Twentieth Century. New York: Marshall Cavendish, 2004. 821 PAS Paschen, Elise, and Rebekah Presson Mosby, ed. Poetry Speaks: Hear Great Poets Read Their Work from Tennyson to Plath. Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, MediaFusion,2001. 821.08 QUI Quiller-Couch, Arthur, ed. The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900. Oxford: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1923. REF 810.9 GRE Shuman, R. Baird, ed. Great American Writers:Twentieth Century. New York, Marshall Cavendish, 2002. 821.08 STA Stallworthy, John, ed. The Oxford Book of War Poetry. Oxford: Oxford at the Clarendon Press. 811.08 SUL Sullivan, Nancy, sel. The Treasury of Americana Poetry. Dorset Press, 1990. REF 920 UXL Tyle, Laura B., ed. World Biography, Detroit: UXL, 2003. 811 WHI Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. New American Library, 1958. Reference Books REF 809 CON Riley, Caroline, ed. Contemporary Literary Criticism Series. Detriot: Gale Research Company, 1973. REF 809 CON Bryfonski, Dedric and Phyllis Carmel Mendelson, eds. Twentieth Century Literary Criticism Series. Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1978. REF 820.03 CON Kinsman, Clare D., ed. Contemporary Authors Series. Detroit: Gale Research Company,1973. Audio/Video/Realia Osgood, Charles, narrator. Poetry Speaks: Hear the Great Poets Read Their Work from Tennyson to Plath. 3 CD's. Naperville, IL:Sourcebooks MediaFusion, 2001. MIT World: A reading by Seamus Heaney. (See web link below) Requires RealPlayer. Rainstick, used as sound effects for Heaney's poem "The Rain Stick." Seamus Heaney reads poetry at MIT INFOHIO Resources (If you need these resources at home, ask a librarian for username and password.) Click here to visit Infohio. Try using the following resources in the Core Collection: Britannica Online American National Biography Literature Online Oxford reference